What is it all about

I have spent a few days looking around at my photos.  I ended up thinking a lot about how skilled I am as a photographer.  By no means do I have the professional skills of some people.  I think what it boils down to is how do I feel about my photos.  I look at some of the other work out there that is truly amazing.  Tones are awesome and composition is flawless or so it seems.  I have spent many hours looking at videos on photography, I have seen some hard core individuals that go on and on about you should study this persons work or that persons work.  I started to realize that there is really no right or wrong.  If you look out there in the vast pit of photos on the web there is one of everything.  I looked a photo the other day and it was blurry, but you know what there is photographer that shoots his images that way.  They call him inspiring and genius.  So what?  My photos are not as good as his blurry images?  Seems odd.  I take a bad shot and it is off to the trash this guy intentionally does this and it is a masterpiece.

So I am come to two points in this muse of mine.  Aaron Nace, phlearnvangalist (phlearn.com).  He said in one blog post, you spend a lot of time reading and watching and probably looking at photos.  You are scratching your head about this that or the other thing as you look at the awesome images.  He final comment was stop looking at them and go take pictures.  The best way to get better is to go and take photos.  So in the previous post I was spurred on and went downstairs and took photos.  Not a brilliant sunset or anything.  But something that made me think.  Credit to Dale for giving me the idea of just going and taking a photos.  Have fun with it.  I sometimes feel my photos totally suck and yes not everyone is a keeper, 90% are probably a waste of 1's and 0's but there are some that you can work with.  Which leads me to the next point.  Neil Young does an interview with Howard Stern, his comment about making art was interesting.  I will paraphrase it "make art however you feel you want to make art or however you are inspired.  If you like it then who cares what anyone else thinks".  In my mind this coming from an artist that succeeded at making his money and fame and can now say whatever.  But it is totally true.  I am an artist of some kind.  I choose to share my work with those I want and not the entire world wide web.  In the end what I get is art that I like or love.  I guess what I am saying is if you are waiting for somebody to say yeah that is it man you have it.  Well you may be waiting a very long time.  Create something, if you have inspiration I believe it will reflect in who you are and what you create.  Which leads me back to the first point, get out there and take photos big or small good or not so good.   Try and do and be inspired on whatever level you are at.  That will create passion and passion will result in something amazing.

So what is it all about for me?  I think I have started to figure it out.  we will see but I am looking forward to see what I can create.

cheers.